Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton was a very well connected 19th century writer who became famous as a fervent supporter of women’s rights following an acrimonious divorce case which involved her husband attempting to sue her close friend Lord Melbourne, who happened to be the Whig Prime Minister at the time. She campaigned vigorously against the injustices that women had to suffer in family ...
Caroline Carleton was a 19th century, English-born poet who emigrated to South Australia. She is famous for the words of Song of Australia which was adopted in South Australian schools and other places as a patriotic song. In 1977 it made a shortlist of four to select a National Song for Australia.
She was born Caroline Baynes on the 6th October 1811 in ...
Lady Carolina Nairne was the author of many of what have become Scotland’s best known songs but much of her work has been attributed since to other writers such as Walter Scott or Robert Burns. She wrote many Jacobite songs such as Will Ye No Come Back Again and Charlie is My Darling, the latter being a title much used in ...
Caroline Clive was a 19th century English writer who produced a number of collections of poetry as well as a few novels. Her most famous poetic work was probably the book IX Poems which received a great deal of acclaim from Victorian literary critics when published in 1840 and was reissued several times afterwards. In 1855 she published a novel called Paul ...
BenJamin Banneker, sometimes written as Bannaker, rose during the 18th century from challenging beginnings to a position of great respect and eminence in the fields of astronomy, land surveying, mathematics and poetry. He was an outspoken opponent of slavery and he wrote many pamphlets and essays on the subject, and of civil rights in general. He is considered one of the first African-American ...
Cheon Sang-byeong was a Japanese-born writer who emigrated to South Korea at the age of 15 and became one of that country’s most famous and loved poets. Cheon suffered many dark times during his lifetime; he was tortured as a suspected spy, suffered ill health through alcoholism and was impotent. Amazingly, despite all this, he had a happy disposition and a constantly optimistic ...
Benedikt Livshits was a Russian Jewish poet and translator of French literature. He was one of the many writers of that time who belonged to an era that became known, much later, as the Silver Age of Russian literature. This was generally believed to be the period covering the last decade of the 19th and the first three decades of the 20th ...
Over the last 300 years or so literary critics and students of Elizabethan dramatists have debated the various merits of these two writers. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher wrote plays and poetry together during the reign of King James I, probably during the first fifteen years of the 17th century. Some will argue that the one was more influential than ...
This Canadian poet was more often known by the shorter version of Bliss Carman. He actually lived for most of his life in the United States and it was here that he became known worldwide. He was never forgotten in Canada though and they made him their Poet Laureate in his later years. He was a lyrical poet who was numbered amongst ...
There are a number of recorded variations on this French medieval troubadour’s name. He is variously referred to as Bernard de Ventadour, or Bernart de Ventadorn amongst others. This secular composer wrote lyrical poetry for the art of the troubadour and he is also known as a “Master Singer”. The typical song style of his contemporaries was the cançon and he developed this ...